Who is the new Khan in Zeenat Aman's life?

Anything one Khan can do, the other can do better. Zeenat Aman, 29, busty star of several recent flops, has got over her divorce from Sanjay Khan, 39, jinxed star of other flops, with remarkable resilience. The new Khan in her life is Pakistani all-rounder Imran.

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February 4, 2014

ISSUE DATE: March 15, 1980

UPDATED: November 14, 2014 16:16 IST

Zeenat and Imran: from Khan to Khan?

Anything one Khan can do, the other can do better. Zeenat Aman, 29, busty star of several recent flops, has got over her divorce from Sanjay Khan, 39, jinxed star of other flops, with remarkable resilience. The new Khan in her life is Pakistani all-rounder Imran. The pair met during the Bombay Test at one of the many film parties thrown for the cricketers and it was love at first grope. Whether the couple have any future is unclear. Aman is too much in love with her career to give it up while lmran insists on staying in Pakistan where he has to support a mother and several sisters. And as for marriage, the lady is said to be unwilling to rush into anything after the last fiasco. Meanwhile, the lovers keep in touch over the phone and Aman has once again begun eating heavily, something she always does when she's in love.

Biki Oberoi: pictorial plagiarism

It proved to be his biggest blunder. Biki Oberoi, president of the Oberoi hotel chain has been upsetting the British aristocracy and indulging in a bit of pictorial plagiarism. In an advertisement for Oberoi Hotels that appeared in the February 11 issue of Time magazine, Oberoi took the liberty of including a photograph of "Sir Kenneth Keith, chairman of the Rolls Royce Company" eating a meal at the New Delhi Oberoi Intercontinental. "Where would you stay if you owned a Rolls?" asked the advertising blurb. Sir Keith, in true British aristocratic traditions, was not amused. For one, he does not use a Rolls Royce. Neither is he Sir Kenneth but Lord Kenneth. And, finally, he is no longer chairman of that venerable British institution. To add insult to injury, Oberoi failed to pay him a modelling fee for the advertisement, according to a spokesman for Lord Keith. A letter has been dispatched to both Oberois and Time magazine asking that the advertisement be pulled out. Clearly a case of Biki taking the Lord's name in vain.

Shen and Xiong: Savior-faire

In their bulky Mao suits and primly shod feet, the couple stand out like the proverbial sore thumbs in New Delhi's elegant diplomatic cocktail circuit. But in terms of status, Shen Jian, 64, and wife Xiong Youzhen, 64, cast an enviably long shadow. He has recently arrived in India as Peking's new envoy to New Delhi - his second stint at the austere-looking Chinese Embassy in the capital. He was among the first batch of diplomats who arrived in India in 1950 to set up the embassy and establish diplomatic ties with India. After a five-year tenure in New Delhi, he was elevated to Ambassador level in the embassy at Havana. His last official post was vice-minister of the foreign liaison department of the Chinese Communist Party. "I am most impressed with the development India has made in the past 25 years," he acknowledged shortly after his arrival, with typical diplomatic savoir-faire.

Mrs Gandhi and Arun Nehru: all in the family

The Gandhi family certainly believes in keeping a firm grip on their possessions. Mrs Gandhi reluctantly relinquished her parliamentary title to the Uttar Pradesh constituency of Rae Bareli, but by last week it was back in the family fold, thanks to Arun Nehru, 34, Mrs Gandhi's plump and jovial nephew, the son of Capt Anand Nehru, Mrs Gandhi's second cousin. His victory last week in the parliamentary byelection over Janeshwar Mishra re-established the Gandhi hold over what is as much a part of the family holdings as 12, Willingdon Crescent. Nehru, a product of La Martinere College, Lucknow, is a senior executive with the well-known paint company of Jenson and Nicholson. Married to Subhadra, the daughter of former Railway Board member, P. N. Kaul, this represents Nehru's first big leap into the political arena. "This was the best time to try and win a parliamentary seat," says Nehru. Considering the fact that he had his illustrious aunt Mrs Gandhi campaigning for him, that would seem like the understatement of the year.

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